India, June 18 -- China's nuclear arsenal is growing faster than any other country's, by about 100 new warheads a year since 2023, said Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in its report.
SIPRI estimates that China now has at least 600 nuclear warheads.
"By January 2025, China had completed or was close to completing around 350 new ICBM silos in three large desert fields in the north of the country and three mountainous areas in the east," SIPRI said.
Depending on how it decides to structure its forces, China could potentially have at least as many ICBMs as either Russia or the USA by the turn of the decade.
"Yet even if China reaches the maximum projected number of 1500 warheads by 2035, that will still amount to ...
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